Control: reopen 695738
Control: unarchive 292486
Control: unarchive 479393
Control: forcemerge 695738 479393 292486
On 12/12/2012 10:12 PM, Ari Pollack wrote:
> There is no significant difference between 1.4 and 1.5 that would affect
> Debian users, since it already contains similar changes as in the Debian
> package. See also: #292486, #479393.
Perhaps the existence of 3 separate bugs opened over the course of 7
years suggests that there is interest in aligning the debian package
with the upstream package.
If there are no significant differences, what is the drawback to having
the upstream version in debian?
By minimizing our differences from upstream, debian can provide more
help to the upstream project by encouraging wider use of their codebase;
and we can potentially encourage new contributions that could flow back
to upstream.
Someone who is interested in modifying docker from within debian now has
to decide whether they want to work from debian's 1.4-5 or from
upstream's 1.5, and has to analyze the differences between the two.
if debian were to ship 1.5, any user who has a problem with it might get
more responsive help from upstream, instead of first being told "i don't
support 1.4 any more, please upgrade to 1.5".
Given that our priorities are our users and free software, and that you
say there is no significant difference between 1.4-5 and 1.5, updating
docker to the latest version seems like the right step to take.
If the main concern is the time to do the re-packaging work, would you
be interested in a patch?
Regards,
--dkg
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